Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen7Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... Century 2816 A Mohammedan on Christian Vices The Devil's Head in the Valley Perilous MARCELLINUS , AMMIANUS c . 330 - c . 395 A. D. 2820 Luxury of Roman Decadence MARTINEAU , HARRIET 1802-1876 2826 Walter Savage Landor ! MARX , KARL ix ...
... Century 2816 A Mohammedan on Christian Vices The Devil's Head in the Valley Perilous MARCELLINUS , AMMIANUS c . 330 - c . 395 A. D. 2820 Luxury of Roman Decadence MARTINEAU , HARRIET 1802-1876 2826 Walter Savage Landor ! MARX , KARL ix ...
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... century perhaps in the accumulating ) to his old Bank friend . Was this a story to purse up people's hearts , and pennies , against giving an alms to the blind ? -or not rather a beautiful moral of well - directed sharity on the one ...
... century perhaps in the accumulating ) to his old Bank friend . Was this a story to purse up people's hearts , and pennies , against giving an alms to the blind ? -or not rather a beautiful moral of well - directed sharity on the one ...
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... century or two later , I forget in whose dynasty . By such slow degrees , concludes the manuscript , do the most useful , and seemingly the most obvious arts , make their way among mankind . Without placing too implicit faith in the ...
... century or two later , I forget in whose dynasty . By such slow degrees , concludes the manuscript , do the most useful , and seemingly the most obvious arts , make their way among mankind . Without placing too implicit faith in the ...
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... century of the era from which we date our civility , we are but just beginning to leave off the very frequent practice of whipping females in public , in common with the coarsest male offenders . I shall believe it to be influential ...
... century of the era from which we date our civility , we are but just beginning to leave off the very frequent practice of whipping females in public , in common with the coarsest male offenders . I shall believe it to be influential ...
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... century . An extreme Republican in his politics , he was in all his literary sympathies an intellectual aristo- crat of the severest and most exclusive type . By his politics he alienated the class to which he belonged by virtue of the ...
... century . An extreme Republican in his politics , he was in all his literary sympathies an intellectual aristo- crat of the severest and most exclusive type . By his politics he alienated the class to which he belonged by virtue of the ...
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Página 2677 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Página 2572 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Página 2465 - His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Página 2593 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Página 2463 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Página 2594 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Página 2594 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Página 2728 - Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Página 2462 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling!
Página 2592 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...